Steps, each attributed. (1) Break the script into breakdown sheets, usually one per scene or part of a scene; each sheet has a scene header and elements assigned to categories such as cast, props and wardrobe [mms Breakdown]. Strip fields available for display include scene number, I/E, set, locati…

Steps, each attributed. (1) Break the script into breakdown sheets, usually one per scene or part of a scene; each sheet has a scene header and elements assigned to categories such as cast, props and wardrobe [mms Breakdown]. Strip fields available for display include scene number, I/E, set, location, unit, pages, page eighths, shoot time, screen time, D/N and sunrise/sunset [mms Strip Display]. (2) Put every sheet on a board as a strip and reorder strips to find an efficient shooting order; keep alternative orders as boards and sub-boards (for example 1st and 2nd unit or episode blocks); park unscheduled strips in the 'Boneyard' [mms Board]. The Universal Schedule Standard models the same objects: breakdowns, categories, elements, stripboards containing boards 'commonly named stripboard and boneyard', calendars and events [uss docs]. (3) Give each sub-board a start date and insert day breaks, by hand or automatically by script page eighths, shoot time or screen time; each day break shows the day number, date, page count and estimated shoot time [mms Day Breaks]. (4) Adjust against calendars by dragging strips between dates [mms Building a Schedule]. (5) Derive the day-out-of-days from the strips: codes W (working), S (start), F (finish), H (hold), D (drop), P (pick-up) plus travel, fitting and rehearsal; holds apply between an element's first and last workday when it is not working; drop/pick-up needs a minimum number of calendar days [mms DOOD, DOOD Rules]. OpenShotDesigner's README claims a default drop-and-pickup gap of 10 days and a one-liner and shooting schedule generated from the same strips [openshotdesigner README]. Method not executed by the collector. Rationale: The manual pages describe features in this order of the interface (Breakdown, Board, Day Breaks, Calendar, Day-Out-of-Days). The sequence is the collector's reading of how the features chain; the individual capabilities are stated by the vendor and by the standard's documentation. Counterevidence: Movie Magic documents one vendor's workflow; real productions use other tools and manual boards. USS docs describe a data model, not a scheduling procedure, and OpenShotDesigner's behaviour is an upstream claim. Uncertainty: Not executed: no schedule was built in any tool. Reports pages (one-liner, shooting schedule, DOOD report) were only listed in the MMS table of contents. Not legal or union-rule advice (e.g. meal penalties). Sources: - https://mms-docs.ep.com/Breakdown/Breakdown.html - https://mms-docs.ep.com/Board/StripDisplay.html - https://mms-docs.ep.com/Board/Board.html - https://mms-docs.ep.com/Board/DayBreaks.html - https://mms-docs.ep.com/Calendars/BuildingaSchedule.html - https://mms-docs.ep.com/DayOutofDays/DayOutofDays.html - https://mms-docs.ep.com/DayOutofDays/DOODRules.html - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/UniversalScheduleStandard/UniversalScheduleStandard/main/docs/docs.md - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/koosoli/OpenShotDesigner/main/README.md Checked: 2026-10-17

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